Summary
Writing
- Published essays, features, profiles, including in Boston Globe Magazine, Boston Globe, Zone 3, Journal News, Jewish Advocate, Hebrew College Today
- Write “Debfeb’s Blog” on Open Salon.com and Skirt.com; and, in the past, “The Debfeb Diaries: Everyday Observations and Existential Musings,” at http://debfebdiaries.blogspot.com
- Essays featured on cover pages of Salon.com and Skirt.com
- Published “The Diary as a Transitional Object in Female Adolescent Development,” Adolescent Psychiatry, vol. 11, 1983, based on original master’s thesis research
- Serve as Managing Editor for the Lahey Clinic Journal of Medical Ethics
- Write quarterly e-letter for Zamir Chorale of Boston; conceive and write marketing materials; served as managing editor and contributing writer for semi-annual magazine
- Studied expository writing, journalism, and screenwriting at University of Michigan, Emerson College, Harvard Extension School, Cambridge Center for Adult Education
- Study memoir and essay writing at Grub Street, Inc., a Boston writers’ center
Editing
- As publications director at Hebrew College, wrote, edited, proofread 200+ feature and news articles, web content, newsletters, catalogues, brochures, fliers, press releases, ads
- As freelancer, copyedited 30+ nonfiction trade and academic books, 400+ articles for Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History, 1,000+ entries for Encarta Africana; edited children’s and young-adult fiction; manuscripts, dissertations, brochures in social sciences, education, arts; proofread trade and academic books
- Managed production and helped guide redesign of Hebrew College Today from 11x17 newsletter to 52-page magazine as part of marketing and communications team
- Served as managing editor for semi-annual magazine, overseeing all aspects of production; wrote and maintained in-house style guide
- Supervised freelancers, staff writers in publishing, academic, and mental health settings
- Managed copyediting and proofreading department at Publicom, Inc., a K–12 textbook publishing house; hired and supervised freelance staff
- Provide editorial consultation to authors from draft to publication
Project List (partial)
Developmental Editing & Manuscript Consultation
Hakim, Cliff, We Are All Self-Employed: The New Social Contract for Working in a Changed World (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1994) Over 30,000 copies sold
Hayes, Kit Harrington, Managing Career Transitions: Your Career as a Work in Progress (Scottsdale, Ariz.: Gorsuch Scarisbrick, 1995)
Richards, Dick, Artful Work: Awakening Joy, Meaning, and Commitment in the Workplace (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1995) Winner, Benjamin Franklin Award, Best Business Book of 1996, Publishers’ Marketing Association
Rosen, Stephen, and Celia Paul, Career Renewal: Tools for Scientists and Technical Professionals (San Diego: Academic Press, 1998)
Copyediting
Eaton, Judith, Strengthening Collegiate Education in Community Colleges (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1994)
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Kwame Anthony Appiah, eds., Encarta Africana: Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Black History and Culture (CD-ROM, 1999; print version, 2000)
Golden, Bonnie, and Kay Lesh, Building Self-Esteem: Strategies for Success in School and Beyond, 2d ed. (Scottsdale, Ariz.: Gorsuch Scarisbrick, 1996)
Goodman, Joan E., Hope’s Crossing (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998) (YA fiction)
Hall, Curtis, and Paul Harmon, Intelligent Software Systems (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994)
Hurst, Beth, and Ginny Reding, Keeping the Light in Your Eyes: Helping Teachers Discover, Remember, Relive, and Rediscover the Joy of Teaching (Scottsdale, Ariz.: Holcomb Hathaway, 1999)
Krull, Kathleen, Lives of the Presidents (San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1997) (YA nonfiction)
Mankiller, Wilma, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, Barbara Smith, Gloria Steinem, eds., Reader’s Companion to U.S. Women’s History (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
Remer, Abby, Pioneering Spirits: The Lives and Times of Remarkable Women Artists (Worcester, Mass.: Davis Publications, Inc., 1996)
Rinaldi, Ann, Cast Two Shadows (San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1998) (YA fiction)
Rinaldi, Ann, The Coffin Quilt (San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999) (YA fiction)
Russell, Barbara T., Last Left Standing (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996) (YA fiction)
Yerby, Janet, Nancy Buerkel-Rothfuss, and Arthur B. Bochner, Understanding Family Communications, 2d ed. (Scottsdale, Ariz.: Gorsuch Scarisbrick, Publishers, 1994)
Proofreading
Bartholet, Elizabeth, Family Bonds: Adoption and the Politics of Parenting (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993)
Bartle, Nathalie, Venus in Blue Jeans: Why Mothers and Daughters Need to Talk About Sex (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998)
Baur, Susan, The Intimate Hour: Love and Sex in Psychotherapy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
Hall, Brian, Madeleine’s World: A Child’s Journey from Birth to Age Three (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
Just, Ward, Echo House (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997)
Morgenthau, Henry III, Mostly Morgenthaus: A Family History (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1991)
Seligman, Martin E. P., The Optimistic Child (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995)
Siegel, Robert, ed., The NPR Interviews: 1996 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1996)
Ward, Geoffrey C., ed., Closest Companion: The Unknown Story of the Intimate Friendship Between Franklin Roosevelt and Margaret Suckley (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995)
Employment
Freelance Writer & Editor, private clients and arts organizations (ongoing)
Managing Editor & Writer, Zamir Chorale of Boston, Newton, Mass. (1999–present)
Publications Director, Hebrew College, Department of Marketing and Communications, Newton, Mass. (2000–03)
Manager, Copyediting & Proofreading Department, Publicom, Acton, Mass. (1998–2000)
Freelance Copyeditor & Proofreader, in-house contracts in educational and trade publishing houses, including Houghton Mifflin, Harcourt Brace, John Wiley, McDougal Littell (1990–99)
Manuscript Editor & Media Caption Writer, Encarta Africana, Cambridge, Mass. (1998)
Grant Writer, Zamir Chorale of Boston, PBS documentary film project (1999); Boston College School of Social Work training program (1985–86)
Production Editor, School Reading Department, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Mass. (1991–92)
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